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God is beautiful and loves beauty : the object in Islamic art and culture / edited by Sheila Blair and Jonathan Bloom. - xi, 389 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 30 cm

Includes bibliographical references and index.

I.M. Pei and the Challenge of the Modern -- The Galleries of the Museum of Islamic Art, Doha -- Twenty Leaves from the Tashkent Koran -- Three Stucco Panels from Samarra -- Two Capitals from Madinat-al-Zahraʼ -- The Most Authoritative Copy of ʻAbd al-Rahman al-Sufi's Guide to the Constellations -- Three Ceramic Vessels from Medieval Islamic Times -- The Biography of a Thirteenth-century Brass Ewer from Mosul -- A Mamluk Enameled Bucket and Experiments in Glass Productions -- Seven Woven Silk Tent Panels from the Mongol Period -- An Early Anatolian Animal Carpet and Related Examples -- An Ottoman Murakkaa and the Birth of the International Style -- Five Folios from the Jahangir Album -- Six Seventeenth-Century Oil Painting from Safavid Persia.

ISBN: 9780300196665 0300196660

LCCN: 2013005184

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Islamic art objects--Congresses.
Art and society--Islamic countries--Congresses.

Index Terms--Genre/Form:
Conference papers and proceedings.

LC Class. No.: NK720 / .B54 2011

Dewey Class. No.: 704.088297 BLA / 11020